Tim Lane's Blog, page 13
February 27, 2023
Your Silent Face: a New Painting
Continuing with the theme of small works. This painting is on a Fabriano fine grain postcard block, 5”x7”. The image of the astronaut is borrowed from the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. I greatly admire this film, and the orange space suits are sexy.
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Future Sunrise, 2023, watercolor, 5”x7”
February 22, 2023
Booked for Lunch: Tim Lane, Flint Public Library
Happy to be featured at the Flint Public Library on March 9th. More info here. Book info below.
Your Silent Face By Lane, Tim Buy on Amazon 
February 19, 2023
In Which the Artist Reveals a New Painting Titled Rose Passage
When I saw the tiny canvases at the art supply shop, I couldn’t resist. But they did sit around for a bit. Finally, a new work of art.
Rose Passage, 2023, watercolor & colored pencil on canvas, 3”x3”
February 7, 2023
Stages of Paintings
Certain paintings take you forward. Sometimes it is the exploration and execution of a large painting; other times the completion of a painting which developed very slowly and absorbed a lot of mindful reflection. Below are 5 groupings, 4 paintings each. Each group represents a different stage, as well as a progression. They are not necessarily my most cherished pieces, but definitely meaningful works for me.
January 28, 2023
New Year New Review: YSF
Hello, hello, there is a new review of Your Silent Face on Amazon. Sometimes it is nice to read what another reader has to say. Oh, and by the way, I’ll be at the Flint Public Library on March 9th, at noon, for their brown bag lunch hour book discussion. I'll be reading and chatting and discussing and fidgeting and answering questions and signing books and geeking out. Come by, say hi, have a cup of coffee, eat your lunch, I won't keep you long.
amber— Verified Purchase
5.0 out of 5 stars Ahh memories....
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 24, 2023
Verified Purchase
I’ve always loved a coming-of-age story and was especially interested to read a book with the setting of a time and place of my youth. I really enjoyed the book—a daily reminiscence of the teenage, blue-collar family, lifestyle as the background of the main character’s specific experience —and oh the things that go through that character’s mind—hilarious-anxious-apathetic, and sensitive thoughts and observations. I appreciate that I can easily picture every scene described—and the first person descriptive is witty and smart but never too wordy—made me laugh out loud. Another lovely element is all of the iconic music that is referenced—enjoyed re-introducing myself to it.
Your Silent Face By Lane, Tim Buy on Amazon
Your Silent Face Available Now
Your Silent Face: The Playlist 
January 20, 2023
Your Silent Face: A Novel Set in Flint, Michigan
Buy it, read it, tattoo your favorite quote on your body. A second novel is in the works, but in the meantime I continue to occasionally promote Your Silent Face. Enjoy the companion 80s playlist, too!
“The reader will likely be reminded of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity or possibly Richard Linklater’s 1993 film Dazed and Confused; Lane’s tale is similarly episodic and digressive and more dedicated to re-creating the feeling of a time and place than telling a cohesive story. Even so, the sharp prose and inviting energy help it to succeed where similar novels fail. Readers will enjoy following Stuart’s thought processes, wherever they lead.” —Kirkus Reviews
What lies ahead that doesn’t suck? Summer break forces Stuart Page to return home and wrestle with his fraying ties to the East Side of Flint, his memory an archive of cassettes he would like to erase. His freshman year of college was lame. More early Cure than Spandau Ballet, he might be overheard saying. More Gary Numan than Falco.
Flustered by visits from a stoic viking, fueled by an endless supply of beer, Stu picks apart an obsession with the lead singer of Joy Division and chugs the sour dregs of insecurity as he drunkenly veers through Flint’s blue collar fight culture, summer hook ups, the aftereffects of Old School Catholicism and Reaganomics in Your Silent Face.
Key words; fiction, coming of age, 80s music, New Wave, Gen X, Rust Belt, Native American, graffiti, urban poetry
Your Silent Face By Lane, Tim Buy on Amazon
Your Silent Face: The Playlist 
January 18, 2023
No Two Portals Alike: A New Painting
No Two Portals Alike is my first painting of 2023. The Astronaut Rose Portal series continues. I also continue to explore different watercolor paints and techniques. It’s been a hard autumn and winter, but I have much to cherish, and for that I am thankful. Enjoy the site. There are lots of galleries, playlists, my novel, an art shop and more.
No Two Portals Alike, 2023, 12"x9" $100.00
Your Silent Face Available Now
Your Silent Face: The Playlist 
January 14, 2023
Standing at the Punch Bowl Swallowing Punch: a Playlist of My Favs by The National
Who cannot relate to the lyric: I still owe money to the money, to the money I owe? There are over 100 public playlists on my Spotify account. Here’s another, featuring my favorite songs by The National.
January 13, 2023
Poetry, Anyone? Yes, Poetry? Excuse Me, Mr. Poetry?
Hankering for some poetry? I just bought a new collection a few days ago: Thicket, by Melanie Janisse-Barlow.
Yours truly has a few collections available as pretty downloads right here at yoursilentface.
Man on a Wire $8.99 
Pure Pop $6.99 
WTF $10.99 
The Personal Poems $6.99 
January 1, 2023
White Noise: A Type of Review
First Review of 2023: In Which the Reviewer Does Not Spoil White Noise. This review does not rely on any content of the film, so don't worry about spoilers. I think Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, White Noise, is pretty decent. Many things are done in a creative, interesting, smart way. Most if not all of DeLillo's themes are present, or at least glossed over: fear of death, obsession with violence, the cycle of dysfunctional parents being raised by exceptional children who will then become dysfunctional parents, obsession with celebrity, the inundation of photons and data, science and medicine as savior, attachment, belief, everything has happened (deja vu)--it's a long list. DeLillo's book is a critique of society which is just as relevant today as it was in 85. If while watching White Noise (and this perhaps ACTUALLY IS A SPOILER) you do in fact feel a sense of deja vu, I am fairly certain that you are supposed to (Baumbach uses National Lampoon's Vacation as the template for White Noise, giving all of us a sense of having seen everything we are viewing before.). Adam Driver channels Chevy Chase masterfully. Jack and Babette's family IS the Griswold's in a parallel universe. The screenplay is to be praised. Breaking the film into parts is literary and helpful. The credits at the end of the film are a well-earned spectacle. And still, while I have read White Noise the novel three or four times, the last return in 2020, I am fairly positive that I will never watch Baumbach's film ever again. For all of its cleverness, and for all of the ways in which it remained true to the novel, and despite great performances by all of the actors--loved Don Cheadle (always do)--something didn't add up for me. I think for me the film satirized themes which I believe DeLillo presented with a better balance of gravitas. Granted, that is perhaps hard to do in two hours. 4 out of 5 stars.
